About Project Arcade [B42MP]
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Arcades are back! Many playable retro arcade and pinball machines with original sounds have been added to the world.
To get them, you’ll need to find ROMs in electronics-related locations and build them, you can enable a sandbox option that replaces vanilla arcade machines in the world with random arcades from this mod, or you can add the essential addons mod to get them via CLAWpocalypse machine (see below). Of course, vanilla arcades are also playable!
Get happiness and fun bonuses, and reduce stress while playing!

The CLAWpocalypse is a classic claw machine that exchanges a coin for a prize from the pool. How is the pool built? Hopefully, together!
The system was designed so different creators can plug into it, allowing you to get your favorite plushies through the machine using a rarity-based system. For the initial release, I included compatibility with Spiffomon3D (you need to have the 3 mods installed for them to appear), but I invite all collectible creators to join in (BURN THEIR COMMENT BOXES SO THEY DO).
The default pool — can be disabled via sandbox — includes: [olist] [*]Common: Vanilla plushies [*]Rare: Big Spiffo, Happy Face Pillow, Star Pillow, Pancho the Dog, Plumpabug the Aphid [*]Epic: Spiffo suit parts [*]Legendary: 'I Love Pixels' Wallet, DK multicolor pen, Blue Ghost keyring [*]Impossible: Kate’s photo [/olist]

Show your friends that you’ve got the biggest… punch! A scoring system calculates your strength, nimble, and a bit of randomness, generating a server-wide high score. It features two categories: male and female. Only the names of the top players in each category are recorded.
One coin, one attempt. Train your body to be the best — or to beat yourself!

Coins were added for balance reasons: don’t neglect your stress, happiness, or boredom. Don’t ruin your life going 24/7 trying to get Kate’s photo. And don’t try to out-luck players who actually trained their bodies to hit hard.
Without coins: I’d have to add cooldowns to the punching machine and a chance to get nothing from the claw machine. I don't really like that.
In the future, I plan to add experience gains for certain skills by playing specific arcades — because WE ALL KNOW we’re not really playing, we’re just training for real life. Another reason to have limits.
You can obtain coins from zombie corpses, toy-related stores, children’s bedrooms or you can forge them!
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This is the answer to your question:
No, B41 and B42.12 are just a beautiful memory now. Yes, it is fully functional in 42.13>++ MP
Yes, it is safe to add it midgame. Yes, you will get invisible furniture if you remove it midgame and probably will get WorldDictionary error if you are using it in MP. Remove all the machines from the known world before disable the mod. You are warned.
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Thinking about implementing
- Two-player air hockey machines - Skill XP from playing - Miscellaneous sounds, such as inserting a coin or passive machine ambience - Complex to implement arcade cabinets (car / motorcycle / weird stuff)
MORE, MORE, MORE
MORE ARCADES ARE NEVER ENOUGH
Probably won’t happen… maybe it will
- Scoring for arcades
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Many thanks PseudonymousEd, for lighting the torch. Vanilla arcade sounds and system are his cretation. AuthenticPeach, for letting me implement their animations (poorly — sorry! I’ll do them justice) Daddy Dirkiedirk, for allowing me to take his amazing work as starting point. For real Dirkie, your videos transmitted all the knowledge I employed to make this a reality. I'm really greatful. Community Tile Pack, for posting those tiles and the quick response when I need it. crunchyoctopus, for agreeing to participate with their mod. afyrmo, for help me to make this mod compatible with Neat Building. Malevi4, for making this mod to be accessible to russian players.
Russian Translation by Malevi4
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Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 3 mo ago.
Project Arcade [B42MP] on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Project Zomboid servers. We download it from Steam Workshop, place it, and restart the server.
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Project Zomboid — 6 GB (6 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 2026-08-16, released 2026-08-16
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop |
From 1 recorded build of Project Arcade [B42MP].
Run Project Arcade [B42MP] on a Project Zomboid server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogQuality of life & UI
Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.
Compatibility
- Game
- Project Zomboid
Verified at the source
- ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorBass, as published on Steam Workshop
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree


